-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 How much time does it take to "smoke test" Perl?
On 02/20/2014 01:31 PM, John Goodyear wrote: > > My apologies for falling off with the Perl build testing with Karl. > I cannot promise that I could continue the work that Karl and I > were doing last year. > > > I think it was towards the end of 2012 that I tried to hook the > community up with an environment in which a couple of people could > use to build perl on z/OS. At that time, nobody wanted to own the > responsibilities of performing the builds. If that has changed, > let me know, and I can contact the resource to see if the offer is > still on the table. > > > Regards, > > John Goodyear > > > Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> wrote on 02/18/2014 > 06:18:51 PM: > >> From: Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> To: >> [email protected], Date: 02/18/2014 06:19 PM Subject: Re: EBCDIC >> support is on the chopping block >> >> * Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> >> [2013-02-06T18:31:17] >>> [ This message was also sent to perl-mvs ] >>> >>> As was brought up about 18 months ago... >>> >>> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.mvs/2011/09/msg1545.html >>> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.mvs/2012/01/msg1598.html >> >> Now it's been another twelve months. >> >>> ...support for z/OS, specifically EBCDIC support, is on the >>> chopping > block. >>> So far, no dedicated resources, human or otherwise, have been >>> provided. >> >> We've been talking about dropping EBCDIC unless we get a >> dedicated resource for smoking perl for two and a half years, >> initially saying that we were > going to >> drop it after 5.18.0. Despite the great efforts by Karl to make >> thecore > tests >> pass, we seem to have no dedicated EBCDIC testing, nor any >> prospect of > having >> it. >> >> I think this has been long enough. We've gone past my threatened >> dates a number of times. Unless I've missed some existing >> promise of testing > that >> simply hasn't been turned on, but is ready to run on a regular >> schedule > with a >> machine that won't go away without warning, I think it's time to >> consider > the >> plug pullable in 5.21.early. >> >> -- rjbs [attachment "signature.asc" deleted by John >> Goodyear/Gaithersburg/IBM] - -- Karl Nordstrom Storage Systems Group Information Technology Services The Pennsylvania State University (814) 863-1936 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTBmUeAAoJEJ6ApJRfJdbfKr0H/1hIbh+AWfxRDS5Dsr+R28S6 uN7JW8Gu4Xhra7W12ECndld5PZglnWqGfMptLkCTpJRq4kOmPX2nvBWVpkIfzOq6 ZYs5k+Ect/cFe69eRgFxFoAsCxotAORIyG7BlGMFg/JIbylSStBVPynfCtpUvUO/ SrEQYUnUBMC1qI+Rjz9N0lXy2t/gcpjP6bxfSwUHblYPol/aCALvca0sUIE/i6+B 2VG2YallRimqhkVBmiJD47l/q1SrODVUcpfQ7jQpGhKFPiFU8aRz2PDiAcpK8MCE R55OyQ6TyIoXYONt8HkzrzhNY7oeFIw5lNVDHkfFGBeoPXvxt1tFB9a2lFOSuzM= =FlyD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
